The Outer Worlds
The Outer Worlds is a PC shooter game developed by Obsidian Entertainment. It centers on area and route exploration, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management, with controls and information arranged around keyboard movement and mouse aiming, with a controller where supported.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.1 / 10
About this game
The Outer Worlds is a PC shooter game centered on area and route exploration, positioning and evasion, and weapon and firepower management. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
The Outer Worlds is Obsidian’s science-fiction RPG series about finding your way through societies shaped by corporate power. First-person exploration, conversations and combat let you decide who to trust and how to handle competing demands.
Recommended games
Related game recommendations on this platform
Windows PC
AI review
AI reviews are subjective assessments, not player ratings. See each review for its evidence and limitations.Published date:
A compact science-fiction adventure led by role-playing choices rather than demanding shooting.
The Outer Worlds is strongest when a character’s abilities and attitude change how a problem can be approached. Its conversations make choosing a role enjoyable, even when the resulting changes are not always visible in the world itself. A journey through smaller planetary areas is manageable without the commitment demanded by an enormous continuous map. Combat provides movement between the more interesting decisions, but predictable opponents limit its lasting appeal. Colourful retrofuturism and strong voices give the adventure personality, while static conversations sometimes expose its presentation limits. The original PC release offers a usable experience with qualifications: historical testing identified outdoor stutter and restrictions around shortcuts and widescreen configuration. This assessment concerns the 2019 original and does not transfer those findings to the later Spacer’s Choice Edition or expansions.
Strengths
- Flexible role-playing choices
- Distinctive compact journey
Weaknesses
- Conservative combat
- Historical PC stutter and settings limits
Who it is for: Players who value conversations and science-fiction satire.
Play notes: Original 2019 release only; remaster and expansions excluded.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Compact areas sustain progress, although combat variety remains conservative. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Dialogue and skill choices support meaningful role-playing within visible limits. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Colour and voice work stand out more than character animation. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension A workable PC release with historical stutter and configuration limitations. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
Review sources
Not provided
Core information
- Developer
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Publisher
- Take-Two Interactive
- Release date
- 2019
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- ReplayableExplorationFast-pacedThird PersonMain Story Under 10 HoursLinear LevelsShootingSolo-friendlyDodgePlayer versus Environment3D Graphics
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2019
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideJun 5, 2020
Game gallery
Sources
- www.nintendo.com